What is everyone's political affiliation, and why?
I had a rather long conversation at lunch today with some coworkers about people's views on political parties, and we concluded that the average person doesn't know a thing about what their party is doing on Capitol Hill and why, and most people couldn't tell you more than 2 or 3 principles of their party without looking them up.
We also concluded that far too many people adopt their affiliations from their families. "Well, dad was a republican and it seemed to work for him, and I know republicans like war and I'm really into guns and war movies, so I'm a republican too I guess." That sort of thing.
And because of the first rule of thread making:
I'm AFP (America First party). We're creepy communists who like to screw sheep. And we're also into grass-roots reform mingled with common sense and the ideals of constitutional republicanism. I'm a patriot, first and foremost. I don't care who the candidate is or where they're from, as long as they possess wisdom and a primary concern for the nation and its people.
I can't stand that our leaders aren't average citizens with average pay and benefits, and I can't believe that our military is stretched to dozens and dozens of foreign countries for no reason. The nazis have been defeated, the Soviet Union is no more, and yet we're still based all over Europe.
I hate lobbyists, I hate special interests, I hate taxpayer subsidies of business, and I absolutely cannot abide being illegally taxed by my own government to provide aid to foreign governments and organizations.
The AFP is about all of these and more, so it suits me. And it's new, having been formed in 2002, so it has that revolutionary feel I like so much. I wanted to join a group who was just as angry as I am at our government and how we're selling away our sovereignty.
VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!
I had a rather long conversation at lunch today with some coworkers about people's views on political parties, and we concluded that the average person doesn't know a thing about what their party is doing on Capitol Hill and why, and most people couldn't tell you more than 2 or 3 principles of their party without looking them up.
We also concluded that far too many people adopt their affiliations from their families. "Well, dad was a republican and it seemed to work for him, and I know republicans like war and I'm really into guns and war movies, so I'm a republican too I guess." That sort of thing.
And because of the first rule of thread making:
I'm AFP (America First party). We're creepy communists who like to screw sheep. And we're also into grass-roots reform mingled with common sense and the ideals of constitutional republicanism. I'm a patriot, first and foremost. I don't care who the candidate is or where they're from, as long as they possess wisdom and a primary concern for the nation and its people.
I can't stand that our leaders aren't average citizens with average pay and benefits, and I can't believe that our military is stretched to dozens and dozens of foreign countries for no reason. The nazis have been defeated, the Soviet Union is no more, and yet we're still based all over Europe.
I hate lobbyists, I hate special interests, I hate taxpayer subsidies of business, and I absolutely cannot abide being illegally taxed by my own government to provide aid to foreign governments and organizations.
The AFP is about all of these and more, so it suits me. And it's new, having been formed in 2002, so it has that revolutionary feel I like so much. I wanted to join a group who was just as angry as I am at our government and how we're selling away our sovereignty.
VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!
and yes.
